How to make the switch from Android dev to full-stack dev?
Hi all. I graduated college back in 2018 and for 75% of my career since then I have been doing Android development. I’ve recently come to terms that I do not want to consider pursuing it further, and would be much happier doing full-stack development or even primarily backend.
I’m really struggling with attempting to make the switch as I have little to no system design experience. I’ve tried watching the videos and reading the documents about system design concepts, but even with practice it feels like I would be regurgitating information in interviews without having real world experience in these topics and I wouldn’t know how to answer follow up questions on any of them.
I’m trying to switch internally at Amazon (as an L5/SDE II), and even then the informal loops typically end after the team asks for system design artifacts and I have nothing substantial to provide.
Curious to hear from folks who have been in my shoes and how you got unstuck from a specific niche? Whether it be Android like myself, iOS or another specification.
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